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This F e rn should be in every collection.
An evergreen stove species.
Native of jMauritius.
T he fronds, which are pinnate, are glabrous on the u p p e r
surface. The pinnæ are pinnatifid, ovate-lanceolate in form,
attenuate, and sub-opposite. Segments ra th e r obtuse, the lower
and u p p e r ones the longest.
Sori medial; indusium minute.
Stipes somewhat angular, and being furnished for about two
inches at the base with long blackish incurved scales, and also
with thin ly scattered shorter scales on the rest of the stipes
and rachis; these parts are also thickly covered throughout
with very short pellucid glandulose bail's.
L en g th of frond twenty-four inches; colour pale green.
F o r fronds my thanks are due to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of
'Wentworth.
I t is not in any of the Nurse rym en ’s Catalogues.
The illustration is from Mr. Joseph Hen d e rso n ’s frond.
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